Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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